Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri K.Chandrashekhar Rao Participated in Telanganaku Haritha Haaram Programme at Gundampally Village, Chityal Mandal of Nalgonda

Honourable Chief Minister Sri. K Chandrsekhar  Rao on friday launched the fortnight long second phase of  Haritha Haram  a flagship programme of the Telangana State Government at Gundrampalli village  in Nalgonda,  a district  left with five per cent green cover-  the least in Telangana. He joined one lakh green volunteers who planted over 1.25 lakh saplings all along the 165 km  Telangana stretch of the Hyderabad – Vijayawada National Highway No 65. People from all walks of life including students,  NGOs,  self help group members the general public took part in the green drive on a massive scale.  The exercise was intended to  develop a green corridor  all along the  high way.

 

Speaking on the occasion Chief Minister   made a fervent appeal   to the common public to take up the plantation drive  as an initiative of their own instead  of  considering it as purely a government sponsored programme.  Effective public participation would make the programme a complete success.

 

He said that Nalgonda district would now on be an area of special focus for the social forestry programme.  The district should emerge on the top of the list in the state in promotion of social forestry.

 

Chief Minister pointed out that any thing can be bought with money but not rains. People of Nalgonda  district  should put in more efforts to revive the lost green cover for receiving bountiful rains every year.    

 

Chief Minister wanted the people to involve themselves in the programme with a resolve to demonstrate that  a green Telangana was not  impossible task.   We achieve  separate state of Telangana  the hard way  with a struggle that lasted over a decade.   People who  were often complaining about the monkey menace in the villages and towns should realize the fact that  the habitat of the monkeys was destroyed by us and it is now our responsibility to revive it .

 

Stating that the persisting drought conditions  are our own making,  Chief Minister  wanted the people to  help address the main cause of such  calamities by taking up  plantation  programme to arrest forest degradation.  Just planting the saplings is not enough. It will be the responsibility of every citizen to ensure their 100 per cent survival.   

 

Chief Minister  sanctioned Rs. 350 crores  for the rehabilitation of  three canal systems – Pilaipalli canal, Punadigani canal, Dharma Reddy canal – which  had the potential to irrigate over 25000 acre of land  besides feeding some 60 irrigation tanks . He appreciated the district administration of Nalgonda for the arrangement made facilitating the massive green drive.

 

 

Chief Minister planted a sapling of Kadambam species in Choutuppal market yard and Neem in Gundrampalli village. People participated in the programme in a festive mood all along the highway.  Chief Minister  who reached Gundrampalli by road,  flew by his official chopper to take an aerial  view of the ongoing plantation drive.

 

Chief Minister also stated that the Government is implementing programmes like Mission Kakatiya, Mission Bhageeratha and Welfare initiatives for the development of poor people.

 

Honourable Minister for Energy & Scheduled Caste Development Sri. G. Jagadeeshwar Reddy, Deputy Chairman, Legislative Council  Sri. N. Vidya Sagar, MLCs and MLAs and other officials participated in the programme.